We have an old laptop that has Windows 7 and some very specific software that our finance dept uses. We no longer have access to this software that was created by company that is no longer in business. Users typically remote into this machine to run this software that requires SOAP UI Utilities and Office 2003 to work. We would like to Clone this PC unto another similar PC so more than person can access this software and perform the same function. All that being said, can we close the hard drive of that laptop unto another laptop (Does it have to be the same make and model?) so we can have an exact duplicate of that system? I was thinking about using Clonezilla.

I had this question after viewing how to truncate Exchange 2016 DAG DB transaction log..?.

We are considering implenting a DAG environment.

How does application aware backups using products such as veeam etc impact DAG members that utilise replay lag times and passive dag members?

eg - is there a chance of replay not being healthy if for example the backup job truncates logs but the copy was in a bad state?
Should i be backing up the passive node instead?
If i backup the passive node, what happens to the logs on the active, passive and replay lagged database copies?

All very confusing.

I currently have a site where we had originally purchased a 3-2-1 (3 servers – 2 ISCIS – 1 SAN) solution back in 2012. The SAN was upgraded about 4 years ago, but we are really at a point where we need to do a full refresh. Overall the setup has been good and haven’t had any major complaints from end users.

Due to the single point of failure and latency sometimes incurred during backups, large upgrades to our application server which uses SQL, and RDS use, I was hoping to move away from SAN and use local storage while keeping the HA / vMotion features.

Obviously, VMware’s vSAN came straight to mind even though I knew I’d basically have to purchase all new licensing (Currently Essentials Plus) and vSAN.

We will be replacing all our Windows 2008R2 VMs with Windows 2019 but here is a quick overview of performance:




After the upgrade it be similar to another site and VM count.


Overall we should not have over 12-15 VMs. There will be 1 RDS server which will probably have around 32-64GB of RAM but I usually dedicate a host for that VM.

I called my Dell rep and tell them about the refresh and budget I’m trying to stay in for hardware and any VMware licensing and of course they come back with the vxRail solution, Enterprise Plus Licensing, etc, with a price point 3x my budget. I feel like I’m talking to a car salesman looking to see how much they can get out of me and…

Say, I have an android Black Berry Key one with Google Backups enabled. I'm after restoring a backup of my call logs from 5 months ago.
How do I go about this? tx Shaun

Hi

I need your help to put together Powershell script to

Script 1 - BAK extension file Audit

1. Script needs to be able to use input server file (server bulk)
2. Scan servers drives (E:\, F:\, G:\ or I:\) or be able to select drives
3. Look for  “*.bak” extension files.
4. Generate CSV output files with
       a. server name
       b. Bak file name and path
       c. File Size
       d. Dates temp of the file.
       3. hash
5. Email report to specific email address

I have a Audit script but it doesn't work correctly. It scans all drives, doesn't provide date of BAK file creation. It doesn't sent email with report

$ExtensionList = @('.bak')
Get-PSDrive -PSProvider FileSystem |
    ForEach-Object  {
        Get-ChildItem -Path $_.Root -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
            Where-Object { $ExtensionList -eq $_.Extension } |
            ## ForEach-Object { $_.Name, $_.FullName, $_.GetHashCode() }
            Select-Object @{Name="Name";Expression={$_.Name}}, @{Name="Hash";Expression={$_.GetHashCode()}}, @{Name="FullName";Expression={$_.FullName}} |
            Export-Csv -Path C:\Temp\BAKAudit\BAKAuditReport.csv -NoTypeInformation -Append

I don't have BAK deletion script, which should do as follows

Script 2 - BAK Deletion
1. Use generated output file (from script 1) and remove"Bak" file older then 3 days.
2. Once the deletion is completed another report should be created showing what bak files from which server and from …

Hi,

I someone already used Veem from vm backp and restore? I want your opinion if it's a simple and good product?

Thanks

Hi,

I have a Windows Server 2016 that a 2 TB SSD has been installed in.  Is there a way to image this server to this SSD online and then have the old HDD disconnected and the SSD boot up normally?  I'm trying to perform this remotely so I don't have to be on-site to image the drive with an imager.  I use StorageCraft software but not on this system in particular.  But I could buy ShadowProtect SPX.  Would this allow me to do this or is there a better or less expensive way of doing this?  As ShadowProtect SPX Server lists for $1095 and this is a one time image.  Thanks in advance for your help!

We are considering hosting our own cloud backup location for a handful of servers that are hosted by commercial companies.

Looking at 150 GB of data backup per month and a monthly OS disk image of three or four servers approximately 200 GB total.  Most of it is archival and the image files would be rotated possibly maintaining 2 images per remote server at a time.  Currently using AWS with SyncBack.  Unfortunately started with Jungle Disk because at the time SyncBack did not interface directly with AWS.  This has led to enormous expense in retrieving things from Glacier and dealing with Jungle Disks changing file names/data to proprietary scheme so you can't see actual file names in Glacier.  And JD does not have Glacier retrieval function.  The server hosting companies charge almost as much for regular image backups as for the monthly server fee and I have heard that their backups are not totally reliable.

In spite of that very costly situation and the recent cost time and money required for us to retrieve a 5 TB archive, AWS charges too much and they have a ridiculous amount of tiers of charges and fees that it is nearly impossible to know what charges are coming on a monthly basis.

Looked at Azure and it looks slick but it isn't free or inexpensive even with our moderate amount of usage.  So we are considering hosting our own cloud backup.

We have extra servers so no hardware expense except a few large drives.  We would figure out some secure VPN / FTP into the…

Hi, I have a very old server HP Proliant ML330 G3 with an Adaptec SCSI Ultra3 and two disks.
This is not a RAID1 system: there is OS (Windows 2003 SBS) in disk1 and data folders on disk2.
disk1 is dead.
There are no backups (file system level or systemstate).
Since this server was also a domain controller, I need to reinstall from scratch
If I install from scratch Windows Server 2003 and re-create  a domain with exactly same name of previous one, same users (possilby with same password) could be works fine with workstation ?

Can I use such controller to create a true RAID 1 volume, instead of two separate disks?
Thank you

Dear Experts

I would like to have your advice which software would help be with backup of my Dropbox folder.

My main problem is that I do daily backup and sometimes I realize that I lost one of my folders (probably because i have Dropbox folder on many computers - so it happens I delete somewhere and it deletes across all the computers).

So I want to recover - but it is very tricky for me to find where  in backup I have latest or last version of the folder. Usually I have to go back day by day to find correct day (obviously if I do not realize right next day).

Do you have any idea which software would help me?

Thanks

Vladimir